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Ramblecast 196 Oct 28, 2018

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Are we losing out on the deal by giving kids free Halloween candy? What should we be asking for in return? We've got some ideas to improve Halloween.

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Episode 195: A Horse With High Beams Oct 23, 2018

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We've got a spooky double header this week: "The Ghost and the Cash Box," and "The Deacon of Myrka." They're like yin and yang: one featuring hybrid bean-men who tend the Earth, the other a very strong muscle wizard for hire.

This episode brought to you by executive producer David, Aarne-Thompson type 1430 "Air Castles"

Suggested talking points: the Family Circus line, bean-men to save the Earth, the Bean Meridian, unobeanium, heartburps, cash ghosts, dirtbirds, money games, predator ghosts, Unknown the wandering samurai, goot froop, detcon skelliman, an Icelandic poetry grin, lichgate, wizard department, alfalfasoft

Ramblecast 195 Oct 21, 2018

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Our unique services have been called upon yet again. We've got another dying industry to fix up. On the agenda this week: bars. How do we make them good?

Episode 194: Piss Ghost Coast to Coast Oct 16, 2018

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Our spooky main course this evening is "The Fox Sister," with a short story titled "The Maiden's Grave" for desert. The desert is necessary to wash the taste of the first one out of your mouth. Because of the ending.

This episode brought to you by executive producer Maia, Aarne-Thompson type 1334 "the Local Moon"

Suggested talking points: boy generals, trial by mail, folklore-O's: featuring stuff, cult traps, arcade ticket quest, a daughter made of 18 new cows, ducking is its own reward, clown mouth sister, the barren ballpit, pinball wizard school, the famous Mario livers

Ramblecast 194 Oct 14, 2018

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What comic would you create if you were trying to get rich quick? We know what ours is, after performing a careful analysis of other comics.

Episode 193: Hey Now, You're An Intern Oct 09, 2018

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"The Gold Teeth" is our second entry in Spooklore 2018, featuring a soundtrack by everyone's favorite late 90s/early 2000s band Mouthsmash! What's the deal with those gold teeth anyway? Are they normal, parasitic, or do they got ghosts?

This episode brought to you by executive producer Samwise, Aarne-Thompson type 466, "A Journey to the Other World "

Suggested talking points: drink embezzlement, a tragic gardening backstory, butt teeth, united by piss, good times ranch, farm to laser to table, a Cotton-Eye Joe of paint, cow-drifting, talking to Tupac's hologram, Mouthsmash, industrial grungy nothing, a prescription for "leave me alone," time travel teeth, grandma times, It Fluoride, Kerhs the blue gnome

Ramblecast 193 Oct 07, 2018

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We're talking survival this week. Which one of us would survive the longest in the woods? Anyone else remember their machete days as a youth?

Episode 192: Seven Minutes In Samurai Oct 02, 2018

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We're kicking off What the Spooklore with "the Peony Lantern" from Japan. How spooky is it? Our old friend the Spooktrolyzer is back to help us figure that out, but we'll say this: there are probably more ghosts than there really NEED to be.

This episode brought to you by executive producer Grace, Aarne-Thompson type 305, "Dragon's Blood as Cure "

Suggested talking points: a Gump year, the mayor-sword, cocoon resolution, double wife weeblewobble weeblewobble, Family Feudal Japan, the sometimes nun, catphishing a ghost, Peter Quirrell: Ron's Sexpet, life-saving parkour, a Scooby job, deep scoobs, ghost day jobs, skelliman

Ramblecast 192 Sep 30, 2018

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The phrase "crime tokens" in the new Spiderman game is a little misleading. What should it mean? Obviously they're something that criminals give to other criminals to show appreciate for their crime skills.

Episode 191: Bog's Burgers Sep 25, 2018

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"Jack and His Master" is an old-fashioned fairy tale about some dum-dums who get into a mess they could have avoided. If any of them had just done the game theory (pushes glasses up nose) they would have known better.

Editor's note: there's about a minute of audio that sounds a bit different, this was recorded later because we needed to make sure we had some facts straight.

This episode brought to you by executive producer Liz Wilde, Aarne-Thompson type A1241, "Made From Clay "

Suggested talking points: Jack Coolteen, pro four square moves, skin inches, game theory calculations, the many kinds of servants, upskirts of the Burgermeister, duck duck goose: survival, dark Ronald McDonald, a spot of boy torture, bog smokin', swamped with cow-bogs, Carman's punk rock playlist, folklore Amelia Bedelia

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